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SLAC scientists used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity with 100% efficiency at relatively high temperatures. They glimpsed the signature of a state known as pair density waves (PDW)...

Illustration depicting how two types of waves within superconducting materials intertwine to form a third type known as charge-density waves

Machinist Pete Franco, inside the machine shop of the Light Fabrication building 025 at SLAC.

How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers

Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.

SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator

Jeney Wierman, a staff scientist at SLAC, explains how SSRL tools are contributing to COVID-19 research.

video still frame about X-ray crystallography at SSRL

Selina Li, Sebastien Corde and Philippe Hering in the FACET laser lab.

Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team, returned onsite when SLAC reopened for Covid-19 related research. They support three beamlines, 12-1, 12-2 and 9-2, which are dedicated...

Jeney Wierman of SLAC’s Structural Molecular Biology team

Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being exposed to the powerful SSRL X-rays beams for structure analysis.